Beijing Institute of Technology has not enrolled many liberal arts students in recent years, including economics, international economy and trade, law, social work, German, Spanish, English, Japanese and French.

Among the majors that Beijing Institute of Technology recruits liberal arts students, economics is more prominent. The school has a first-class doctoral program in applied economics, in which national economic mobilization is a discipline with national defense characteristics and has a certain position in domestic universities.

This school is an English major with strong teaching strength. Its college English teaching reform is also in the forefront of the country, and it is now a demonstration base for college English teaching reform of the Ministry of Education. College English Audio-visual Speaking is an excellent course in Beijing and a national excellent course. In 2005, English major won the first prize of national teaching achievement.

The school's law also has its own characteristics, focusing on jurisprudence, civil and commercial law and international law, highlighting legal methods, intellectual property law, environmental and resource protection law, aerospace law and other characteristic disciplines.